Reply #19: You must have missed my earlier response: [View All]

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These folks seem to think that prayer is all that's needed: http://christianscience.com /

These passages speak of healing through prayer--pray and you will be healed.

Matthew 17:19-20
Matthew 21:22
James 5:14-15
Mark 16:18

The first passage I cited also addresses why the Christian god might not heal someone--they don't don't believe: "Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

That line is red in some Bibles...Jesus seems to think that only those who won't benefit from prayer-mediated healing are those who don't believe (i.e. atheists).